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Prang Colored Pencils combine bright, beautiful colors with smooth, thick 3.3mm cores to provide vivid, blendable color and long-lasting drawing fun. They are conveniently presharpened, so they are ready to use right out of the box. These quality colored pencils are manufactured using only the finest materials, such as a genuine wood barrel casing, which allows for easy resharpening. Prang colored pencils are artist quality and school grade, and are PMA and AP certified non-toxic. Perfect for projects, posters, coloring and sketching. They are available in a convenient 12-color set.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

This is a long review, but if you want product review only, the first two paragraphs will do. -- Prang is a good old American brand for watercolors and crayons as well as colored pencils. Their manufacture has shifted to Mexico and however one feels about that in terms of the NAFTA economy, these colored pencils of high quality. At the time of this writing, the 12-count box is cheap (noticeably less than half the cost of the 24-count box) and the color names are quite similar to Crayola's perennial 12-count box, even though the pencils themselves have a somewhat deeper palette (see below).

Twelve- and twenty-four count colored pencils aimed at grammar school kids and up are pretty much a staple now. These Prangs are a little more "mature" (deeper-hued, less vivid) in color than the Crayola's I've seen, though still any twelve-pack will be restricted to primaries, secondaries, and a few neutrals. If crayons were moods, I would count Cra-Z-Art colored pencils the most incorrigibly optimistic, followed with lessened degrees of vividness by Crayola and RoseArt. To the "right" or more realistic side of the divide I would put Prang, along probably with Col-Erase and Mercur. In other words, the Prangs in my experience have a higher "veri-simillitude" (corresponding-to-reality) quotient than many equivalent Crayola. Crayola's evergreen shade looks more like a dark-green leafed tree, while the evergreen of these Prangs looks much more like pine needles to me. For little kids, especially in settings that stress conformity (the second-grade Required Supplies sheet comes to mind), the purchaser might want to go with the flow if teacher has mandated a more kiddie-oriented brand.Read more ›

I still wanted Dixon Prang for the price & positive reviews, as I am giving them to all the young ladies (sets of 24) in our family for Christmas.

Remembering that more expensive pencils have pretty painted heads, & now realizing the paintis useful as well as decorative, I took my daughter's nail polish and painted each unsharpened end, setting them in a water glass to dry without smearing. A couple of hours later a second coat gave a nice finish!

One could also use white-out or paint; but if you have nail polish on hand the brush is the right size to do a "professional" job.

I really like these pencils; they color smoothly and sharpen easily. It's nice that Amazon is offering "Prang" products, an excellent alternative to the ubiquitous "Crayola" brand.

Prang art supplies are great for students. If you need to get watercolors, be sure to buy the PRANG WATERCOLOR sets. They are far superior to the other student sets of paints, and many adult art hobbyists, myself included, continue to use them. I love them! Crayola makes some decent products, too, but whatever you do, AVOID "RoseArt" brand school supplies. They are poor quality, in my experience.

This is an excellent price for excellent colored pencils. I gladly recommend this set.

I bought these pencils for an art project a few months ago. At first, I LOVED them. The colors are great, very vibrant, and application is very smooth. They're also quite easy to sharpen and don't seem to flake off at the tip the way some wooden pencils do.That being said, I have only one complaint. After a week or so of use, I noticed that the color shaft in the middle of the pencil started dislodging and falling out of the back of the pencil. This has happened with six of my colors. I tried to push it back in place but it broke off. I then sharpened the pencil down to get back to the "color" portion, but this reduced the life of my pencils by half since the color was being wasted out the back.Overall, I still think they're a good value for the money. They're better than Crayola and much less expensive than the typical professional brands, so you get what you pay for.

I like these colored pencils. The leads are harder than the Crayolas and seem to hold their points longer. As a bonus, the leads are somewhat transparent, so you can actually use them as highlighter pencils. I keep a notebook with all the things I have to do every day. I mark it up with these pencils instead of highlighters, which I find bleed right through the pages. Nice pencils.

I was looking for some colored pencils for class. I wanted some that were easy to work with, but also had great color. I did not want to spend a crazy sum of money. These were awesome. I highly recommend !!